Wednesday I was driving my 2 liter 81 westy that i had just driven over 1200 miles this past weekend in with out a hitch.  

Sudden loss of power, crappy idle....I pull over and look for the vacuum leak, none............limp it home and decide to get on it first thing Thursday morning. 

First thing i check....which cylinder is dead by pulling wires off the distributor while running in the driveway.  Number 2 unresponsive.  Now, I had no unusual valve clatter, but popped the valve cover to look to see if the rocker backed off.  Nope in place, lifters pumped.  Hmmm.   Take out my noid light to check for injector pulse.  Yep. Blinking away.  Pull spark plug (looked normal) and replaced.  Still not firing. Pull plug out again and do compression test.  Zero yes, zero.  Shoot oil in head, still zero.  Crap.  I am thinking dropped valve at this point, so i pull the rockers off and all the valve stems are equal...then reassemble.  At this point, I wanted to verify that the injector is actually shooting fuel, and yes it was....But while I had it out, I decided to replace my one year old injector seal for the heck of it.  Reassembled, fired it up, running like nothing was ever wrong.

How bout that?
Adam P

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